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The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

Brennan Manning

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
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Control Coward Family Love Obedience Person Training
Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.
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Compassionate Competition Culture Journey Key Ourselves Purpose Success
Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ” is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.
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Acceptance Compassionate Heart Life Religious Scripture Yourself
Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
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Authentic Believe Childhood Discipline Spirit Surender Trust
When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.
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Children Commitment Gradual Mindset Nourish Nurture Spirit
I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.
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God Himself Miracle Myself Wonder
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
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Astonish Call God Goodness Holy Moments Name Stand Stunning
When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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Honesty Impossible Insult Man Personal True Virtual Woman
The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God’s loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.
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Charge Death Grace Hard Time Reality Sin Spiritual War Wonder World
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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God Himself Intimacy True
Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ
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Children Earth Experience God Planet Yourself
We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
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Desert Experience God Kind Love Personal
My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
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Aware Deep Deserve God Love Myself
We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
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Believe Body Despair God Hurt Love Presence Soul
On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
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Day Medal Ourselves Scars Search
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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Difference Experience God Goodness

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